Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour, and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / by John Clarke, M. D. physician to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store-Street, and to the Asylum for Female Orphans; and Teacher of Midwifery in London.

  • Clarke, John, 1761-1815.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour, and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / by John Clarke, M. D. physician to the General Lying-in Hospital in Store-Street, and to the Asylum for Female Orphans; and Teacher of Midwifery in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    &c. (hould be all waflied and aired before they be again en:iployed, and the wards fhould be fcoLired, painted, and white-wafhed. This was the pradtice in the General Lying-in Holpital in Store-Street, both before and fince I had any appointment in the houfe. I men- tion this circumftance, becaufe Dr. Jofeph Clarke expreffes his furprife that it has not been done in England. It may have, and probably has been done in other Hofpitals, bc- caufe it is agreeable to the dictates of com- mon fenfe, that nothing is fo likely to prevent the progrefs of infedlion as giving new fur- faces, or cleaning old ones. Since the year 1788, this complaint has hardly made its appearance at all ; or at moft only in a few cafes. But I think, from what has already happened, I may venture to foretell, that if at any time there fhall be a fucceffion of warm and damp feafons, and of mild winters ; and if the efFefts of this on the fyrtem fhall be proved by the appear- ance of low fevers, or the ulcerous fore throat, under fuch circumftances it will be found that v^'omen in the puerperal ftate will recover ilowly, or will be apt from very flight caufes to